Charlotte Dujardin and her charismatic horse Valegro burst onto the international sports scene with their record-breaking performance at the London, 2012 Olympics. Hear Charlotte's inspirational story of how she achieved her dreams.

About the Author

Charlotte Dujardin, CBE is the winner of three Olympic gold medals and one silver medal, and is Great Britain's most successful Olympic equestrian.

Ann Cleeves, the author behind ITV’s drama series VERA starring Brenda Blethyn and BBC One’s SHETLAND, is the international bestseller of 29 novels and her books are translated into 20 languages.Join her to uncover the secrets of writing fiction, getting published, what it's like having your work adapted for the screen and trying to keep crime fiction authentic without losing the plot...There will also be an opportunity to get your hands on a signed copy of Cleeves' brand new Vera Stanhope novel, The Moth Catcher.

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7:30pm The Courtyard Room, The Feathers Hotel, Ledbury

Terms

Tickets £5 from the bookshop

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Author Signing

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03 December 2014 ...Oops, missed it!

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Rivers of London

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Book club will be discussing "Rivers of London" by Ben Aaronovitch

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7:30pm at Ledbury Books and Maps

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Book Club

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14 November 2014 ...Oops, missed it!

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"Foxglove Summer"

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In the fifth of his best-selling PC Grant series, Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit there may be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local children

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About the Author

Ben Aaronovitch is the best-selling author of the PC Grant series of books that started with "Rivers of London". He is also a screenwriter having written for the Doctor Who series.

Instructions

7:30 at the Burgage Hall, Church Lane, Ledbury HR8 1DW.

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Tickets £5 with £3 being redeemable against the purchase of the book (1 book per ticket)

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Talk

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05 November 2014 ...Oops, missed it!

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Book Club

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Book Club will be discussing "This Boy" by Alan Johnson

Instructions

7:30 at Ledbury Books and Maps

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Book Club

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08 October 2014 ...Oops, missed it!

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"The Miniaturist"

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Acclaimed debut author Jessie Burton will be signing copies of her wonderful novel, "The Miniaturist"

Instructions

From 1pm at Ledbury Books and Maps

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Author Signing

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01 October 2014 ...Oops, missed it!

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Book Club

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Book club will be discussing "The Wild Girl" by Kate Forsyth.

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7:30 at Ledbury Books and Maps

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Book Club

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13 March 2014 ...Oops, missed it!

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The Assassination of the Archduke

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The Assassination of the Archduke - Sarajevo and the murder that changed the world.Who was Franz Ferdinand? Sue Woolmans tells the personal story of the Austrian Archduke whose assassination in Sarajevo in June 1914 sparked off World War I

Instructions

The Burgage Hall, Ledbury, HR8 1DW Thursday 13th March 7:30pm

Terms

Tickets £3 redeemable against purchase of the book.

Event

Author Signing

Event Date

25 June 2011 ...Oops, missed it!

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Bedlam of Bones

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Local writer Suzette A. Hill has just had her latest humorous crime novel published. A Bedlam of Bones completes the quintet started after her retirement to Ledbury a few years ago. “It’s the Ledbury climate that does it ,” she says, “ brisk and cheerful. It stirs the imagination!”

Previous readers of the series will be pleased to see that the anti-hero, the shady Revd Francis Oughterard, continues his intrepid bumbling amidst corpses and blackmailers, and with his dubious companions - human and animal - is once more plunged into a whirlpool of genteel skulduggery.

Suzette will be signing copies of 'Bedlam of Bones'.Join us for a glass of wine and a chance to chat to Suzette about her writing.

11am - 1pm

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Author Signing

Event Date

13 May 2011 ...Oops, missed it!

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The Flavour Thesaurus - Talk and Tasting

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What Makes a Great Flavour Combination?This was the central question that confronted Niki Segnit when writing The Flavour Thesaurus, the first book to examine what flavours work well together. In this talk she gives us some answers, sharing fascinating facts about both classic and unfamiliar matches, with some illustrative tastings along the way.

Niki Segnit had not so much as peeled a potato until her early twenties, when, almost by accident, she discovered that she loved cooking. Much as she enjoys haute cuisine, she’s not likely to reproduce it at home, preferring to experiment with recipes from domestic kitchens abroad. Her background is in marketing, specialising in food and drink, and she has worked with many famous brands of confectionary, snacks, baby foods, condiments, dairy products, hard liquors and soft drinks. Since summer 2010 she has written a weekly column on food combinations for The Times. She lives in central London with her husband.

Instructions

The Burgage Hall, Ledbury, HR8 1DWFriday 13 May 20117:30pm

Terms

Tickets £5 (includes a glass of wine)

Event

Author Signing

Event Date

17 February 2011 ...Oops, missed it!

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Nat Segnit - Pub Walks in Underhill Country - Reading and Signing

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The book that puts Ledbury on the map!

Nat will be signing and reading extracts from his first novel, Pub Walks in Underhill Country.

Pub Walks in Underhill Country is a cunning, hilarious and heartbreaking debut novel that takes the form of a guide for walkers but is really a whole lot more ... It has been described as a guidebook to stubborn optimism in the face of marital – and environmental – meltdown.

The book is set in Ledbury and features some of the best-known walks in the area.

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About the Author

Nat Segnit was born in London and educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he gained a first in English. His short stories and journalism have appeared in various magazines and newspapers including the Times and The Independent on Sunday. His comic play, Dolphin Therapy, was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2004, and a six-part comedy series, Strangers on Trains, in which he also performed, aired on the same channel in 2008. A new series, Beautiful Dreamers, was broadcast in autumn 2010.(From http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/nat-segnit/)

One of Britain's best known journalists and presenters, Peter Snow, recounts the story of Wellington's eight-year drive to defeat Napoleon from Portugal to Waterloo. Using eyewitness accounts by the men of Wellington's Army, he provides a vivid picture of what it was like to fight a war two centuries ago.

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About the Author

Peter Snow was a newscaster for Independent Television News (ITN) from 1962 but gained most fame when recruited to present the BBC Two in-depth news programme Newsnight in 1979. He retired from Newsnight in 1997 to present Tomorrow's World and the BBC Radio 4 quizzes Masterteam and Brain of Britain, amongst other projects.

He has been involved in the live general election results programmes for many years, first at ITN and later for the BBC

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Author Signing

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10 July 2010 ...Oops, missed it!

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Book Signing - The Interceptor

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Fighting on the frontline of the war against crime, Cam Addicott was one of the very few hard-boiled and highly-experienced surveillance operatives to get called up to the secretive and elite Alpha Projects unit - a group of dedicated undercover Customs officers who hunted the UK's most dangerous criminals by extraordinary means – starting with the interception and decoding of their phone calls. Cam soon knew the lives of the people he hunted better than they knew each other. He knew who was cheating with who’s wife – as well as where, when and what they liked to do, what drugs the dealers’ kids were into, who was planning to rob, beat-up and/or murder who, what for, and how they were going to do it. The team shadowed gangsters as they mixed with celebrities, as they brokered huge drug deals in nightclubs and airports, as they discussed how to spend their ill-gotten gains until finally, it was time for Alpha to strike. In this riveting and brutal true story, a cast of unforgettable Mission Impossible characters go far beyond the call of duty to take down their most elusive target, as the lives of the hunted and hunter weave together in an explosive narrative.

Cameron Addicott has been an undercover investigator with HM Customs and SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency) for the past fifteen years. He has unrivalled experience in working at the sharp end against the biggest drug traffickers, people smugglers, money launderers and other top villains all over the world and has used every tool available to put them inside.

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About the AuthorCameron Addicott has been an undercover investigator with HM Customs and SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency) for the past fifteen years. He has unrivalled experience in working at the sharp end against the biggest drug traffickers, people smugglers, money launderers and other top villains all over the world and has used every tool available to put them inside.